GKN Aerospace, the company that owns the troubled chemical tank in Garden Grove that led to tens of thousands of people being evacuated this week, recently settled an air quality safety violation and agreed to pay a fine of more than $900,000.
This is a business that routinely deals with all sorts of toxic and hazardous chemicals as it manufactures airplane canopies, windows and other parts that have to hold up in extreme heat and extreme cold. The company is heavily regulated by local, state and federal agencies, so inspections are the norm.
The violations that were settled in the last year stemmed from an inspection in 2020. This agreement between GKN Aerospace and the South Coast Air Quality Management District, a state agency, says that in November 2020, GKN had violated environmental regulations…